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Subject: sUPER-CHEAP MUSIC pc!!
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Original Message 1/1 01-Jun-03 @ 07:19 PM Edit: 01-Jun-03 | 07:20 PM - RE: sUPER-CHEAP MUSIC pc!!
was 'down the fair' this weekedn and checked out prices for super-cheap build.... bloody-hell it's very cheap npw to get a nice machine for dance making & also for doing songwriting production with audio tracks and midi softsynth backing.
check it out - A DURON 1300 board & processor/cooler bundle... cheapest board has onboard graphic's, with PLENTY enuff power to run any music s/w screen tasks... it has onboard sound which you can disable of course, it has only 2 PCI slots and a short nic card slot and a AGP slot (4x AGP)
Ok this is not going to be a blockbuster gaming machine, but for music on a budget this would be 100% fine as you'd only need a decent cheap ASIO soundcard to be fitted so 2 PCI slots would be fine.
1/2gb of 2700 ddr ram and a 40gb ata133 7200 rpm drive added to the bundle comes to ... £169 quid!!
cool BIG case with top 'grab-handle' for carrying around and nice design £29 quid... Lite-ON CDRW burner £39.00 (works fine with Wavelab 3 & 4 cos I've built a system with a Lite-on already before and it works 100% FINE)
mouse & keyboard - £5.00 each
ok so for the PC it's:
£169.00 for Duron 1300, m'board, cooler, 40gb drive (ata133/7200rpm) & a nice 1/2 gigabyte of fast ddr2700 ram.
£29.00 for case
£39.99 for CDRW
£10 for mouse & keys
Total: Just under £250 quid WITH Cd burner!
Add a good cheap ASIO card like a Hoontech DSP24/96 for about £90 quid and you are rocking and rolling for less than £350 quid all brand new - Just add screen of your choice... Flat 15" now are 200 quid for the cheapest or get a nice 17" CRT flat for about £110 quid or cheaper for a non-flat CRT 17" or of course on a total budget, use a cheap 15" CRT... or use your old screen from your tired old P3 or P2 or whatever...
Now newbies might think that a Duron 1300 hasn't enuff grunt - BOLLOX! - for dance or RnB/garage with vocals or decent songwriting duties to create cool s/w drum backing plus some synth pads, piano's etc, and record some tracks of vocals & guitars, add fx etc & mix & burn your demo's, (or even masters), it's perfectly adequate! - anyways, it was only like another 30 quid to go for a Athlon 2ghz bundle!
I build a test Duron 700 some time ago which I gave to my kid, his studio is well famous in his manor and him and his crew just did their first album on it which is going to pressing soon - it works fine running VST5 & REASON rewired together, and he add's vocals & backing vocals to all their garage & rnb tracks... it works great!
For his box I added a midiman audiophile & midiman Audio-Buddy pre-amp and a decent cheap large diaphragm condenser mic and a cheap Yamaha DX9 master keyboard from loot for £60 quid which is used to play all the Reason synths & drums & VSTi's in realtime - he works at 5ms latency with both VST5 and Reason in action.
That is all on a Duron 700, with only 128mb of pc133 ram! - This budget price system above now gives you a 1300 duron and 1/2gb of ddr ram!... so it'll do the job NO problems!
So there ya go... get to it newbies! - a quality machine for the same price as a decent cheap fx unit!
check it out - A DURON 1300 board & processor/cooler bundle... cheapest board has onboard graphic's, with PLENTY enuff power to run any music s/w screen tasks... it has onboard sound which you can disable of course, it has only 2 PCI slots and a short nic card slot and a AGP slot (4x AGP)
Ok this is not going to be a blockbuster gaming machine, but for music on a budget this would be 100% fine as you'd only need a decent cheap ASIO soundcard to be fitted so 2 PCI slots would be fine.
1/2gb of 2700 ddr ram and a 40gb ata133 7200 rpm drive added to the bundle comes to ... £169 quid!!
cool BIG case with top 'grab-handle' for carrying around and nice design £29 quid... Lite-ON CDRW burner £39.00 (works fine with Wavelab 3 & 4 cos I've built a system with a Lite-on already before and it works 100% FINE)
mouse & keyboard - £5.00 each
ok so for the PC it's:
£169.00 for Duron 1300, m'board, cooler, 40gb drive (ata133/7200rpm) & a nice 1/2 gigabyte of fast ddr2700 ram.
£29.00 for case
£39.99 for CDRW
£10 for mouse & keys
Total: Just under £250 quid WITH Cd burner!
Add a good cheap ASIO card like a Hoontech DSP24/96 for about £90 quid and you are rocking and rolling for less than £350 quid all brand new - Just add screen of your choice... Flat 15" now are 200 quid for the cheapest or get a nice 17" CRT flat for about £110 quid or cheaper for a non-flat CRT 17" or of course on a total budget, use a cheap 15" CRT... or use your old screen from your tired old P3 or P2 or whatever...
Now newbies might think that a Duron 1300 hasn't enuff grunt - BOLLOX! - for dance or RnB/garage with vocals or decent songwriting duties to create cool s/w drum backing plus some synth pads, piano's etc, and record some tracks of vocals & guitars, add fx etc & mix & burn your demo's, (or even masters), it's perfectly adequate! - anyways, it was only like another 30 quid to go for a Athlon 2ghz bundle!
I build a test Duron 700 some time ago which I gave to my kid, his studio is well famous in his manor and him and his crew just did their first album on it which is going to pressing soon - it works fine running VST5 & REASON rewired together, and he add's vocals & backing vocals to all their garage & rnb tracks... it works great!
For his box I added a midiman audiophile & midiman Audio-Buddy pre-amp and a decent cheap large diaphragm condenser mic and a cheap Yamaha DX9 master keyboard from loot for £60 quid which is used to play all the Reason synths & drums & VSTi's in realtime - he works at 5ms latency with both VST5 and Reason in action.
That is all on a Duron 700, with only 128mb of pc133 ram! - This budget price system above now gives you a 1300 duron and 1/2gb of ddr ram!... so it'll do the job NO problems!
So there ya go... get to it newbies! - a quality machine for the same price as a decent cheap fx unit!
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